RFI Smiths Lake NSW, mid N Coast

[Russell Woodford <>]

Hi Susan

Have you looked at  the atlas of NSW Wildlife?  You can submit queries  
to the database for reasonably small areas:
http://wildlifeatlas.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/wildlifeatlas/watlas.jsp

I spent some time north of Wallis Lake some years ago. There was good  
birding in many of the littoral rainforest remnants (e.g. Haliday's Pt  
and Red Head) where it was easy to see catbirds and two bowerbirds as  
well as plenty of the local bush specialties. Some of the inland  
national parks had a good range of species, although there isn't any  
particular spot I'd be able to recommend. We did a Lake Wallis cruise,  
which was pleasant enough, and gave us reasonably close views of  
waterbirds, a raptors like Osprey and Brahminy Kite, and a very close  
view of Azure Kingfisher.
Have a look at the Birding-Aus archives - there have been plenty of  
waders and terns seen at places like Old Bar and Harrington. I think  
Seal Rocks features a number of times - but make sure you filter out  
the Victorian version. Crowdy Head, north of Harrington, is a good  
place for seabirds.

Russell Woodford

Birding-Aus List Owner

Geelong   Victoria   Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org



On 08/02/2009, at 1:29 PM, Susan Knowles wrote:

> I am repeating a request That I made in January in the hope that  
> more people are on the list now.  I am grateful for the one response  
> I received and have since found some information from the archives,  
> but have got very little from the local council site  or National  
> Parks.
>
> We are spending a week in February at Smiths Lake and I would be  
> grateful for any information on good birding spots and what birds we  
> can hope to see.  We have previously only been as far north as Mungo  
> Brush.
> I am interested in Smiths Lake and nearby areas e.g. Wallis and  
> Myall Lakes, the coast, Wallingat SF and whatever NP is south of  
> Smiths Lake.  We do not have a four wheel drive so need reasonable  
> roads.
> Cheers
>
> Susan Knowles
>
>
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